October Road is singer-songwriterJames Taylor's fifteenth studio album. It was released on August 13, 2002 in two versions: a single-disc version and a "limited edition" two-disc version, which contains three extra songs, as well as a video presentation. October Road would become James Taylor's last album of original material until the 2015 Before This World.

The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 154,000 copies sold in its opening week, which is Taylor's best sales week performance for an album in the SoundScan era.[5] The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on November 21, 2002,[6], and has sold 1,076,000 copies in the US as of May 2015.[7]